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“They say crying makes the heart lighter”

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Simon Beaufoy is a renowned British screenwriter, born in 1967. He is known for his profound understanding of film scripts and his creative talent, having won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. more

“I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated. It's all about saying what the weather is like, and you're secretly telling someone you love them. You know what the English are like; they're very repressed people. You don't get that in India. India is incredibly un-cynical about love. It's a not a complicated thing. It's me, you, love. Let's go.”

People Ifs Knows Film India England Complicated Weather Cynical Like Love Repressed One You Love Someone You Love Complicated Things Telling Someone You Love Them

Author:Simon Beaufoy

“When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better.”

Facts Faces Used Sun Used To Be Something Better Old Things Sun Set Live Love

Author:Jonathan Hickman

“The things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us.”

Stronger Divides

Author:Jonathan Hickman

“There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes.”

Loses Fortune Defeat Buried Castles

Book:Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary

Source: Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary

“God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours....I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language.”

Want Giving Trying Years Mind Moments Language Hours Minutes Direct Waking Speakers

Book:Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary

Source: Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary

“Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles.... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind?”

Mind Problem Lord Millions Return Flow Concentration Seconds Angle

Author:Frank Laubach

“I feel simply carried along each hour, doing my part in a plan which is far beyond myself. […] My part is to live this hour in continuous inner conversation with God and in perfect responsiveness to His will. This seems to be all I need to think about.”

Thinking Needs Feels Seems Hours Perfect Plans Conversation Conversations With God Responsiveness

Book:Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach

Source: Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach

“I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting.”

Made Disgusting Thrill Fellowship Fellowship With God

Book:Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach

Source: Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach

“I choose to look at people through God, using God as my glasses, colored with His love for them.”

People Looks Glasses His Love

Book:Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary

Source: Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary

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